Word: cannot
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...TIME erred in reporting that it was before the University of Washington Faculty Committee that Dr. Gundlach said: "No one can prove that I am [a Communist] and I cannot prove that I am not." The statement was made before the university's President Raymond B. Allen on June 2, 1948. On Dec. 9, before the Faculty Committee, Dr. Gundlach denied that he was a Communist, but the committee reported: "We feel that he has been evasive on many matters...
...body which cannot govern itself will not long hold the respect of the people who have chosen it to govern the country...
...with the case." In trying to explain why a patient has "that old tired feelin','' he said, the doctor might turn up some soft gallstones, a slightly low basal metabolism rate or a few intestinal parasites. But the doctor should remember that things like that cannot cause the great fatigue the patient complains about. The commonest cause of abnormal weariness, he said, is a "nervous breakdown," a term that may include neurosis or psychosis. A lot of operations could be avoided, Alvarez thinks, if the doctor asked his patient a simple three-word question: "Are you happy...
...answered by the FCC in Washington. At week's end, the FCC protested that Chairman Wayne Coy had already discussed the situation in a letter. And so he had, without giving a jot of information. With masterly ambiguity and in pure Federalese, Coy had written: "New developments cannot be scheduled, and therefore it is extremely difficult, if not impossible, to determine when any piece of radio receiving equipment may become obsolete. We are unable, therefore, to make any recommendation regarding the obsolescence of equipment now being manufactured and sold...
Since fewer meals will, presumably, be taken at the Dinning Halls, I find it very singular that the average, and hence the total, charge per person should rise rather than diminish: in other words, that the Dining Galls management either cannot deal accurately with figures or does not wish to, two alternatives which one is equally reluctant to accept. Harold P. Furth...